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Features
collections around the world highlighting art and artisans through
the centuries in many artistic venues including furniture design,
interior design, film, video, paintings, sculpture and photography. |
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PSEG Gives State Museum $500,000 for a Climate Change Exhibit |
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The American Evolution: A
History Through Art Opens at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
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The Art Gallery of Ontario |
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Art in the Age of van
Gogh: Dutch Paintings from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is the first North
American survey of 19th-century Dutch painting since the beginning of this
century. |
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The Art
Institute of Chicago |
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African and American Arts, Architecture, Asian
Art, Classical Art, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, European Painting,
Photography, Prints, Drawings, Textiles, Throne Rooms, Twentieth-Century Painting /
Sculpture. |
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Bauhaus Museum - Berlin |
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The Bauhaus was the twentieth century's most important school of design,
architecture and art, which has maintained its influence on design up to the present day. Objects
from the Collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents
the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in spacious galleries
of the Museum throughout the year: architecture, furniture, ceramics, metalwork,
photography, stage pieces and student work from the Preliminary Course, as well
as works created by the school's famous teachers: Walter Gropius, Johannes
Itten, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, Oskar
Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. |
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art |
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One of the
largest art institutions in the U.S. with collections in Ancient Egyptian art and American
Painting & Sculpture. |
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Carnegie Museum of Art |
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The Carnegie
Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that
includes film and video works. Other collections include works of American art
from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth
century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, opened as part of the
Museum in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of
architectural drawings and models. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest
collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of
the three largest in the world. The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the
interior of the Parthenon. |
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THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM:
Museum of Architecture and Design |
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Founded in
1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the
discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and
urban planning. The Museum's mission is the advancement of public education
about the value of Good Design - from the "spoon to the city" - and how
design can positively impact the human environment. As the nation's only
independent Museum of architecture and Design The Chicago Athenaeum has
demonstrated leadership and innovation in bringing the subject of design and
its impact on the quality of life before a national and international
audience. At the same time, the Museum has expanded its international
programs by presenting significant exhibitions on architecture and design to
cities through the United States, as well as Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
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Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum, Smithsonian |
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic
and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the
impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial
programming. It is the mission of Cooper-Hewitt’s staff and Board of
Trustees to advance the public understanding of design across the
twenty-four centuries of human creativity represented by the Museum’s
collection. |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art |
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The collection's paintings and
sculpture are the legacy of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), the museum's
founder and a leading patron of American art. Together with its noted holdings
of 19th-century American prints and drawings, the collection brings us
face-to-face with the people, the landscape and the lifestyles of a dramatically
different time. In keeping with its founder's commitment to the art of his day,
the Corcoran continues to broaden its collection to include a wide selection of
works by contemporary artists. Today, the Corcoran is renowned for its
collection of 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography. In total, the
Corcoran's American holdings illuminate the nation's history and artistic
development from colonial times through the 20th century. |
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Dallas Museum of Art |
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Ancient American,
African, Indonesian, and contemporary art, as well as American decorative arts. |
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Denver Art Museum |
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Design Museum - London |
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The Design Museum is the world’s
leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to
graphics, and architecture to industrial design. It is working to place design
at the centre of contemporary culture. It demonstrates both the richness of the
creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance.
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Detroit Institute of Arts |
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The fifth-largest fine arts museum
in the United States has holdings of over 60,000 works. Within its more than one hundred
galleries are paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts. |
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Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco |
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Exhibitions: American Paintings, American
Crafts & Sculpture, Art of the Americas, African Art, Oceanic Art, Textiles/ Ancient
Art, Medieval Art, Renaissance Art, 17th-Century European Art, 18th-Century European Art,
19th-Century European Art, 20th-Century European Art, Works on Paper, Ceramics. |
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
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The
Frick Collection |
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The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known
paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among
them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb
eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels,
Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. |
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Guggenheim Museum
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The Guggenheim collection online premiered in April 2001 with a
selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Currently
representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and
the new—from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille
Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998–99 sculpture by Robert Gober—striking
a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole. In the
winter of 2001, we added almost 100 works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice, in the summer of 2003 we added works commissioned by the Deutsche
Guggenheim, which will soon be followed by highlights from the collection of the
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. |
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The Hermitage |
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National Historic Landmark, is a 14-room
Gothic Revival home built in 1847-48 from designs by William H. Ranlett
for Elijah Rosencrantz, Jr. The house incorporates portions of an
historic 18th century house. |
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High Museum of Art |
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Horta
Museum |
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Art Nouveau home built by Victor Horta in the 1890's. |
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J. Paul Getty Museum |
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The Kimbell Museum
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The
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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The Museum library's online catalogue, Watsonline, is
accessible to all. In addition, the staff of the Lita Annenberg Hazen and
Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources has catalogued
hundreds of art-related and general resources for online research. |
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Montgomery
Museum of Fine Arts |
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Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts |
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One of North America's finest encyclopedic collections,
totaling over 25,000 objects of Canadian Art, Contemporary Art, Inuit and Amerindian Art,
European Masters, Prints and Drawings, Decorative Arts. |
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Musée des
Augustins |
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Musée du Louvre |
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Established in 1793,
the Louvre Museum, in the company of the Ashmolean Museum (1683), the Dresden Museum
(1744) and the Vatican Museum (1784) is one of the earliest European museums. |
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Museum of Art and Design - Helsinki |
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Museum of Art and Design
- New York |
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For nearly half a
century, the Museum of Arts & Design has served as the country's premier
institution dedicated to the collection and exhibition of contemporary
objects created in clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber. The Museum celebrates
materials and processes that are today embraced by artists in the fields of
craft, art and design. |
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Museum of Contemporary Art |
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Offering exhibitions of the most
thought-provoking art created since 1945 documenting contemporary visual culture through
painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. |
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Museum of Design -
Zurich |
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The
Museum of Fine Arts Boston |
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French Photography: Le Gray to Atget, Reopening of
Egyptian Funerary Arts and Ancient Near East Galleries, American Traditions: Art of the
People, A Monumental Egyptian Gateway in Boston, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of
the 16th and 17th Centuries, The Firestone Collection of French Silver, Face to Face with
the Builder of the Great Pyramid, Galleries for the Art of Africa, Oceania and the Ancient
Americas.
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The Museum
of Fine Arts Houston
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The Museum of Modern Art |
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MOMA
Architecture and Design documents, drawings, film and video,
painting and sculpture, photograph, prints and illustrated books are
available. |
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National Building Museum |
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The
National Gallery |
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The National Gallery of Art |
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Index of American Design features Costumes, Dolls, Folk Arts of
the Spanish Southwest, Furniture, Metalwork, Pennsylvania German Folk Art,
Pottery, Shaker Crafts, Textiles, Toys and Woodcarving |
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The National Gallery of Canada |
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The
National Gallery of Ireland |
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The
National Museum of African Art |
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The
National Museum of the American Indian |
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National
Museum of Women in the Arts
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The National Portrait Gallery |
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Prairie
Styles: Online Museum of Prairie Style Architecture |
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The ideas and principles of the Prairie School of
Architecture evolved out of the inspirational and philosophical teachings of
Louis Sullivan and were realized on the drafting boards of the shared
drafting room loft of the Steinway Piano Company Building in Chicago,
Illinois beginning in the 1890’s. Following the lead of Frank Lloyd Wright,
were a group of architects and artisans that over the course of the next 25
years worked and shared ideas together that developed into a style of
architecture that was unique to America. Explore an online museum of the
architects, the artisans, and the styles that were part of this progressive
group. |
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Robert McLaughlin Gallery |
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Collections consist of over 6,800 works of art. The computerized collection
comprises nearly 3,000 historical photographs of Oshawa and Durham Region.
About 100 works are featured in four exhibitions per year. In addition to
art, the Gallery acquires research materials. Its Library is the largest art
library in Durham Region devoted to fine art and the history of visual arts. |
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Salvador Dali Art Gallery |
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Extensive collection of Dali's
work. |
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The
Salvador Dali Museum |
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Comprehensive collection of this great Spanish artist's
works. |
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The
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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Collects, preserves,
presents, and interprets the best of contemporary and modern art for the
purpose of enriching people's lives through aesthetic and learning
experiences. |
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The Smithsonian |
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The Smithsonian holds
more than 140 million artifacts and specimens with a center for research
dedicated to public education, national service, scholarship in the arts,
sciences and history. |
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The Tate Gallery |
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Vitra
Design Museum - Berlin |
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Documents
the history and current trends in industrial furniture design. |
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The Wyeth Center at The
Farnsworth Museum |
